All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2013)

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane Synopsis

A group of high schoolers invite Mandy Lane (Amber Heard), a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop quite mysteriously.

It has been an interesting journey for the film, which built up a strong cult support group by screening at multiple fests. At the time, the Weinstein Company picked up the rights to the film and planned to distribute it through its Dimension Films shingle. But after Grindhouse underperformed, it sat. And sat. Until now.

As long as I've worked at Cinema Blend-- actually, even longer than that-- Jonathan Levine's All The Boys Love Mandy Lane has been like a totem, a wisp of an idea of a film that a few people in the know would whisper about, largely as laments. To follow its sordid past requires encountering a company that no longer exists--Senator Entertainment--reading dozens of disappointed "It was going to happen, but now it's not" news stories, and going back to a time in which Levine was an upstart newcomer

The Overlook Hotel of The Shining isn't exactly a real place, but it looms large enough in our cultural imaginations that we're probably more afraid of it than most places that actually exist. And the hotel that stood in for the Overlook-- Estes Park, Colorado's Stanley Hotel-- is ready to take advantage of it. This year will be the inaugural year for the Stanley FIlm Festival

Horror movies, more than any other genre’s output, are notorious for sitting on production company shelves for a variety of reasons, not seeing proper releases until years after their production. Usually, a no-name actor will rise to some level of fame, and the film will get pulled out of limbo and shoved onto DVD trying to ride the coattails of that performer’s popularity. In the case of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, however a one-two punch of bad circumstance sealed its temporary fate.